Book Launch — November 2, 2012

Book Launch

For those of you who live in New York, I would like to invite you all to come out to the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan on Monday, November 12 for the book launch of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda and America’s War in Arabia.

It should be a fun, laid-back evening and I hope to see many of you there.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Why do we have an Oort Cloud?

Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.

13.8

Transhumanism: Will The Singularity rescue us from death?

Spoiler alert: Everyone dies.

Life

Biosignatures: Phony fossils complicate the hunt for life on Mars

Purely physical and chemical processes can deceive us into thinking that life is present, when it actually is not.

The Past

Why most modern humans possess Neanderthal DNA

Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.

Neuropsych

I studied people who think leisure is a waste of time – here’s what I found

Think leisure is pointless?

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Personal Growth

Why the Marathon Shouldn’t Run

Update 11/4: A few hours after I published this post, Mayor Bloomberg decided to cancel the marathon for the reason I develop below. See my analysis of Bloomberg’s surprising last-minute […]